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Quod Spes Magna
In a world full of perplexities, and Uncertainties, with problems everywhere, with lack of means of livelihood and pursuance of false means of livelihood, in a world that has lost almost every sense of decency, with increase in deaths, mass destruction...
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RE-EXAMINIG THE ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the Challenges posed by Globalization. It pays keen attention to its ethical Challenges since according to some scholars, while other problems of globalization are been confronted, the ethical challenges have been left...
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QUESTIONING MORALITY AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN THOUGHT
ABSTRACT The article centers on current discourses on Morality and Religion in African thought. These discourses replicate the ambivalence between those scholars seeking to define African morality within the parameters of a conventionalized, Western,...
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The Courage to Live Consciously:By Ibekwe Udochukwu
The Courage to Live Consciously: by Ibekwe Ephraim Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either...
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Pope Francis: "Reform is Not an End in Itself"
"How beautiful and how sweet when brothers live together." Pope Francis cited this Psalm in his address on the Consistory of the College of Cardinals' first day. Following prayers and an address by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals,...
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Pope Francis' Address to New Cardinals
"But for this very reason, dear brothers, the divine power of love, which transforms hearts, can be all the more evident in us, so that it is no longer you who live, but rather Christ who lives in you." Dear Brother Cardinals, The cardinalate is certainly...
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AFRICA AND CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY
Abstract The media outlets all over the world project Africa as inferior and mere notion of the continent brings to mind war- Hunger, Malnourishment, deadly diseases, religious fanaticism etc. These and many other pessimistic notions about Africa lives...
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THE FIGHT IN AFRICA FOR DEMOCRACY
The contemporary neo-liberal discourse has one fundamental blind spot. It treats the present as if the present has had no history. The discourse on democracy in Africa suffers from the same blindness. The struggle for democracy did not begin with the...
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The Power of Perseverance: Ibekwe Ephraim
If there is one lesson in life that I have learned, and that I find perhaps the most valuable for anyone attempting to accomplish any goal, it is the power of perseverance. It is the one true and dependable key to success that crosses all streams of life,...
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POPE FRANCIS: 'BE IMITATORS OF CHRIST'
Calls on Faithful to Share Christ's Compassion with the Poor and Sick During In the sick and suffering, Christians are called to imitate Jesus and do so with tenderness and closeness. This was the reflection given by Pope Francis today during his Sunday...
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Pope's Address to Consistory of the College of Cardinals
The Consistory, which gathers the College of Cardinals with Pope Francis, began at 9 o’clock this morning in the Synod Hall in the Vatican. The works of the Consistory -- in which the Cardinals that will be created in the ordinary Public Consistory this...
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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMGREATALENTIA
GOD’S GRACE It is already one year anniversary of my Blog and I have decided to move away from presenting academic cum political issues and look into the Grace of God because God’s grace has been so far the source of my success. It is like a fountain...
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REVIEW OF COMPATIBILITY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
COMPATIBILITY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION Those who believe that the creation and government of the world are the work of a Being Whom it is their duty to love with all their hearts, Who loves them with a love beyond all other love, to Whom they look for...
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THE HOLOCAUST: WHY DID IT HAPPEN? IBEKWE EPHRAIM U
On April 22, 1993 the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C. The museum is supposed to be a reminder of the six million Jews (and others) who were exterminated at the behest of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi henchmen during World War II....
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THE JOURNEY THROUGH THIS SEASON OF LENT
On this Day we begin the season of Lent which is our preparation for the Easter celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. It is a time in imitation of Jesus spending forty days in the desert. Jesus fasted in the desert, and overcame the devil’s temptations....
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Reflection for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 26 July 2020 Theme: The Kingdom of God: (Our ultimate Choice over Worldly Possessions)
Reflection for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 26 July 2020 Theme: The Kingdom of God: (Our ultimate Choice over Worldly Possessions) BY Rev. Fr. Ephraim Udochukwu Ibekwe O God, protector of those who hope in you, without whom nothing has firm foundation,...
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Reflection for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 12 July 2020 Theme: The Word and The World
Reflection for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 12 July 2020 Theme: The Word and The World by Fr. Ibekwe Ephraim Udochukwu O God, who show the light of your truth to those who go astray,so that they may return to the right path, give all who for the...
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REVIEW OF COMPATIBILITY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
COMPATIBILTY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION Those who believe that the creation and government of the world are the work of a Being Whom it is their duty to love with all their hearts, Who loves them with a love beyond all other love, to Whom they look for guidance...
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GOD IS THE CENTER OF ALL WE HAVE AND ARE
GOD IS THE CENTER OF ALL WE HAVE AND ARE